Club Average Salary Spend by Year (2017-2020)

Club Total Salary Spend by Year (2017-2020)

Net Salary Spend by Club (2017-2020)

A Note on Clubs

Inter Miami and Nashville had their inaugural seasons in 2020.

Cincinnati had their first season in the MLS in 2019.

LAFC began life in the MLS during the 2018 season.

Finally, Minnesota and Atlanta United joined the league in 2017.

*This data is average across the 2017-2020 seasons of the MLS based on player salaries from the Player’s Association Annual Report.

Regular Season Goals per 90 mins (2017 - 2020)

Note on the plot:

The positions can be filtered out by clicking on the legend. log of total compensation was used to create a more normal distribution for ease of viewing the data. Exact salaries can be searched in the data table tab.

Regular Season Goals by compensation (2017 - 2020)

Regular Season Assists per 90 minutes played by compensation (2017-2020)

Note on the plot:

Positions can be filtered out by clicking on the position name in the legend. The salary data is shown in the log of total compensation for ease of viewing the data but full salary information can be found on the data table tab.

Regular Season Assists by compensation (2017-2020)

Fouls Suffered by Total Compensation (2017-2020)

Note about the Plot:

Total compensation is shown as the log of salary for ease for reading and for normalizing the data. Specific compensation information by player can be found in the data table tab.

Fouls by Salary (2017-2020)

Fouls Suffered by Fouls Given (2017)

Player Nationality

A Note about the Plot:

The US and Jamaica are over lapping for their labels and do not want to be separated.

MLS Players from 2017-2020

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The data is from three sources: Kaggle.com, MLS Player Association (MLSPA) Annual Salary Report, and Fbref for nationality information.